can’t get rss feed to work

  • glib

    (@glib)


    21 years, 5 months ago

    the link to “rss 2.0” is being generated as /feed/rss2/, but when i try to access that page i just get a “404 not found” error. i was reading through the support pages and someone suggested seeing if the feed shows up at /wp-rss2/. it does, but how do i get wordpress to put that url in the link insead? can i change it in the template somehow? i know next to nothing about php.
    the site is http://weblog.mc3.edu/

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  • Cypher

    (@cypher)

    21 years, 5 months ago

    The actual file that manages the RSS2 feed is a file called wp-rss2.php into your ROOT directory.
    When you have permalinks enabled, like you do, on your site. The URL for the RSS2 feed changes from just calling the .PHP file to calling <site.com>/feed/rss2.
    If you look in your .htaccess file on your site, you will see the appropriate line sending the request to wp-rss2.php.
    Please look into the .htaccess file and make sure it looks something like:

    RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
    RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]

    Regards

    Thread Starter glib

    (@glib)

    21 years, 5 months ago

    ah, ok, that explains why it’s creating that url. i thought the problem was that it was calling the wrong file, but i guess it’s calling the right file in the wrong way. however, i just checked and my .htaccess file has that exact code in it. any thoughts on what else might be wrong?
    thanks for your help.

    Thread Starter glib

    (@glib)

    21 years, 5 months ago

    i figured it out. it wasn’t working because i monkeyed around with the permalinks. i went back the default for the permalinks and now the rss feed is working.

    adambeggar

    (@adambeggar)

    20 years, 5 months ago

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